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…In the forenoon my late servant Mary Martin came to see me and dined with me on the remains of yesterday’s dinner. Paid Mr Howard 7/4½ in full for gingerbread bought of him today… My late servant stayed all night. Joseph Fuller smoked a pipe with me in the evening. At home all day and but very little to do.

…Lent Robert Hook in cash £8 for which I received his note of hand payable to me or order on demand… This day John Jones and Mary Heath were married. Pretty busy all day, but oh, the tumultuous thoughts that rage in my breast.

…Mr Burtenshaw, Mr Dungate and Mr John Burgess dined with me on some beefsteaks fried, they meeting at my house in order to settle the accounts between Mrs Davy and Sam Virgoe. They altogether gave me a crown for my trouble. At home all day. Joseph Fuller smoked a pipe with me in the evening.

…In the afternoon walked up to the audit at Mr Vine s, where I paid the steward Mrs Browne’s rent, and I received of Mr John Vine in cash 7.12.0 in full for this and the last audit bill and a bill of nails, all due from the executors of the Rt Hon Henry Pelham Esq. Came home about 7:20 and that sober. Oh, how great is the loss I severely feel in that of a valuable and virtuous wife.

Mary Heath a-washing; for me all day and dined with me on the remains of yesterday’s dinner, with the addition of a boiled carp and a light pudding. My brother came over in the afternoon… I received of him 10/3 for a ream of writing paper. Rec’d of Mrs Browne in cash 2.11.3 and a receipt for half a year’s land tax, 10/-, which together makes the sum of 3.1.3 and is in full for half a year’s rent due to the executors of the Rt Hon Henry Pelham Esq at Lady Day last, and which I am to pay at the audit for her tomorrow…

Mr Long, Thomas Emery and John Vernon spent the evening at my house, they having bought some things in the slop. At home all day and pretty busy, but surely a very melancholy time. In the evening read part of a volume of The Spectator.

In the forenoon paid John Piper 18d for a bushel oats. Paid John Gibbs 4/- in full for quills bought of him today… In the evening; wrote my London letters. Joseph fuller Jr smoked a pipe with me in the evening. Rec’d of John Gosling in cash 5.0.9 in full for the same sum he sold my rags for to the widow Burtenshaw the 15th instant. Oh, how dismal and melancholy [my] situation… [18 words omitted].

Myself and servants at church in the morning… There was a brief read for damage sustained by fire by several poor sufferers at the village of Frimlin in the parish of Ask in the County of Surrey and also several other poor sufferers by fire in the West Riding of Yorkshire; their losses together amounted to the sum of £1125 and upwards, to which collection I gave 2d.

I dined [on a?] boiled plaice. In the afternoon myself and 2 servants at church… After churchtime rode over to Framfield and drank tea with my brother and sister. Mrs Browne in my absence drank tea with my servants. I came home about 7:20. Mr Thornton sat with me in the evening.

I dined on some rashers of pork and potatoes. Mr French and Roger Vallow made me a present of some carp… At home all day, and but very little to do.

…Mr May, an uncle of my servant’s, dined with me on some beefsteaks fried. Mrs Virgoe and Molly French drank tea with me. In the evening went down to Mr Porter’s, where I stayed and supped and came home about 10:20. A sad and melancholy time. Nought, nought but gloom and melancholy prospects present themselves to my disturbed mind.

…In the forenoon walked up to Mr Vine’s with some things for the audit. I dined on a piece of beef boiled, a [suet?] pudding, turnips and potatoes. After dinner I and Mr Porter [??] to Mrs Piper’s, where we balanced accounts with many of Mr Piper’s creditors. I paid in all the money I had received on that account and received the balance of my account, so that now I have nothing due from the trust on that account or any other. I received the balance of the account in cash in hand, which was 105.16.11½, for which I gave Mr Porter and John Piper my note of hand, payable to them or either of them on their or either of their orders on demand. We came home about 7:20. T. Durrant and Joseph Fuller smoked a pipe with me in the evening.